Michelle Majocha figures the odds are pretty good that more than doubling the cost of the Mega Millions lottery ticket from $2 to $5 next April won’t help sales of a lottery game that offers a jackpot of millions.

Upcoming changes to Mega Millions should lead to better odds and bigger jackpots for lotto players, but the price to play is on the rise as a result.

A Mega Millions ticket sold in Maryland won $1 million and narrowly missed the $169 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The ticket matched five winning numbers, but not the Mega Ball, in the drawing Tuesday, Oct. 15, the national Mega Millions site said.

The Mega Millions jackpot keeps growing and reached an estimated $169 million for Tuesday's drawing after no one claimed the top prize on Friday. The winning numbers were drawn just after 11 p.

This jackpot was an estimated $169 million for Tuesday night's drawing, according to the Mega Millions website. The last jackpot was won on September 10, a single winner from Texas won an $800 million jackpot.

The jackpot will now increase to an estimated $185 million ($88.4 million cash value) for Friday night's drawing. Results from Tuesday's Mega Millions game are listed below: NUMBE

The winning numbers have been announced for the Tuesday, Oct. 15 Mega Millions drawing.The winning numbers were 22-34-44-54-62 with a Mega Ball of 03 and a Megaplier of 3XThe estimated jackpot is $169 million with an $80.